Financial legend Bill Hubbard shares his experience and insights of the finance sector

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Bill Hubbard, Finiancial Legend

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Bill Hubbard will talk about what he sees coming over the next year with regard to the fiscal cliff, Quantitative easing, inflationary pressures, etc.

• First job was at Morgan Guaranty Trust Co of New York in August 1971, the same day President Nixon took the US off the gold standard (remember $35.00/oz?).• Did one of the FIRST trades ever in the ORIGINAL 30-year bond • Head hunted by John Mack (former CEO of Morgan Stanley)• Worked with Bob Diamond (pre Barclays) for 7 years• Worked as THE repo broker at Salomon Brothers and attended a ‘few’ sessions of ‘Liar’s Poker’• Executed the FIRST asset swap (Sept 1981) between Citicorp and Detroit Edison• Taught at LIFFE and LSE • Head Hunted by Michael Bloomberg (prior to being the mayor of New York) • Appeared on Bloomberg TV and CNBC-TV(Europe) for 2 years each• Has also o Spoken at a number of conferences/seminars on FX/commodities/fixed income o Been a weekly guest on Bloomberg-TV (London/Mumbai/Istanbul), and Fox Business News.o Been a ‘sporadic’ guest on Sky Business News, Radio 4 and 5, the BBC World Service, and France 24.